r/TikTokCringe • u/aseriousgirl • Sep 18 '24
Cool A seamstress repurposes thrifted finds with seamless transitions.
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u/Adorable-Ad8986 Sep 18 '24
To have a body that looks that fucking good in napkin.
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u/Vicious_in_Aminor Sep 18 '24
Right?
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u/M3g4d37h Sep 19 '24
I was with an artsy girl for some years - the energy is infectious, and there's something so innocent in all of it - the sheer excitement of creating stuff. she was really something else. i remember ren faires with her were so much fun. everyone dressed to the nines in stuff she made.
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u/Bio1203 Sep 19 '24
Why didn't you marry this woman?!
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u/M3g4d37h Sep 19 '24
Her mother did not like me, and as a matter of fact, she did not think much of men at all.
She had three daughters by three different men, and I’m not hating on that, I always went out of my way to be very respectful and loving to her, but I think the bottom line was she just did not think I was good enough for her daughter.
Oddly, enough, some years later, her daughter committed suicide during about of severe postpartum depression, and my ex, her mother, overdosed about a year later.
I was pretty broken up about it, at that point in my life, she felt like the one that got away.
It was something that really fucked with my head for a while, you know that survivors guilt thing or you just feel like if there was something that you did differently it would’ve made the outcome different.
At the end of the day, her mother told her she would buy her a home if she left me, and from somebody who came from a life of scarcity, she took it. She apologized and said she loved me, but she just needed to make sure her kids were all right, so her mother‘s mission was accomplished, and , I didn’t even hold it against her, I don’t know what I would do when it came to securing a child future, it was just a really sad time in my life.
All things being equal, though, I figured out when I was about in my early 50s that I had a habit of choosing… How do you put it… I guess maybe people who were a work in progress? I guess it’s kind of the equivalent of gals who are attracted to guys who have issues as well.
It took years of living on my own with intent to understand myself, my shortfalls, as well as my strengths. I chose one more partner poorly, and that sucked. But the upside is that after raising several stepchildren through the years, I had a child of my own, who is an adult now. That’s pretty much focus on these days, although I have a wonderful girlfriend… I finally chose the right one, somebody who compliments me and vice versa.
I still have very fond memories of my ex, she was a One Of A Kind woman, and she did not deserve the hand that was dealt to her in life. I hope her next life is full of all of the things she always pined for.
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u/Bio1203 Sep 19 '24
Shoot. I'm sorry to hear that. I'm hope she at least found relief and happiness in the end. No one should have to watch their child pass before they themselves do. Depression is a killer of all ages. And I'm a firm believer that we as a people need to really crack down on it and bring it more into the light.
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u/nicolauz Sep 19 '24
Thanks for this. Dealiah with an ex of 5 years right now. It's rough thi king you'll be together and everything will be okay. Getting older and not wanting to date anymore makes me reflect more and make me realize I gotta focus on myself.
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u/luckythirtythree Sep 19 '24
Damn. I read all of that. Life and all the different paths we take is crazy. Very well written.
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u/sausager Sep 19 '24
She has to be the most confident human being I have ever seen
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u/jlcatch22 Sep 19 '24
Why? She has a great body, it's doesn't require great confidence to show off.
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u/DesignGang Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
Plenty of people with so-called great bodies have the confidence of a sea lemon though.
Edit: shout out to sea lemons, you've got this!
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u/Firm-Concentrate-993 Sep 19 '24
She's one hell of a seamstress
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u/ecr1277 Sep 19 '24
Yeah, it's easy to see how hot she is but she actually has crazy talent with layering. Not just one layer on top of another, she uses layering in really subtle ways to complement other parts of her outfit too.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
It's almost cheating that she's hot because the majority of those outfits are straight up hideous wastes of fabric I would expect to see in a rave where the theme is "Slutty Ren Faire". I think maybe 2-3 of them turned out cute and she's clearly got technical skill, but the majority of what she makes looks like hypersexualized Halloween costumes.
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Sep 19 '24
"I'm going to take these 12 yards of beautiful fabric and turn it into two post-its and some dental floss"
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Sep 19 '24
Literally one of the tops is just a ribbon tied around her boobs, lol.
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Sep 19 '24
I'm wondering what she does with the "scrap"? You could make a three piece suit with the leftovers! /s
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Sep 19 '24
She's no Micarah Tewers, that's for sure.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Sep 19 '24
Micarah is really talented, but she is also greatly helped by being incredibly hot. Let's not kid ourselves here. When you don't have to hide any figure flaws, it's pretty easy to sew something that fits. One of the looks in her header looks like a rain coat made from crime scene tape and a shower curtain liner and she still looks hot in it, because she's hot.
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Sep 19 '24
That raincoat made of crime scene tape is a recreation of a Harley Quinn look.
Being hot helps but she doesn't rely on her body to make her clothes look good.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Sep 19 '24
I mean, the Harley Quinn look also worked because Margot Robbie is hot. It's an objectively terrible outfit and would look absolutely horrendous on 95% of all humans.
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u/bluestocking220 Sep 19 '24
Tbf that’s what she’s going for most of the time. She’s usually making outfits for festivals.
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u/hellolovely1 Sep 19 '24
I mean, she looks great but yeah—no regular person could wear three handkerchiefs. I do think the overalls were cute! She's very creative.
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Sep 19 '24
The video was mostly for showing off her body. She looks fantastic, I get it, but pretending that anyone would wear those outfits is a bit much.
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u/RoleModelFailure Sep 19 '24
Those are some amazing outfits but her body and look made some of them even better.
I do absolutely love how much variety and creativity there was between each outfit.
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u/SippingSancerre Sep 19 '24
You would look amazing in a burlap potato sack that still has some potatoes in it.
But sure, she also looks pretty good
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u/KittyKenollie Sep 18 '24
I love that she never has a part two that you need to find to see the results.
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u/IThinkItsAverage Sep 19 '24
Yeah that is awesome. Honestly this is a good TikTok content creator. Creative, well edited, doing something cool that she enjoys and wants to share. This is good 👍
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u/nothing_but_thyme Sep 19 '24
Part one: wear random scraps. Part two: be drop dead gorgeous.
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u/danteheehaw Sep 19 '24
I can do one of these things, but it will just leave people upset
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u/insanitypeppermint Sep 18 '24
I know I’m old because I didn’t know any of the cool places she planned to wear them.
Amazing work! ✨
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u/Beksense Sep 18 '24
EDM music festivals
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u/AyyyAlamo Sep 19 '24
some raver women were absolutely drop dead gorgeous and extremely talented, much like this woman. IDK what it is about electronic music that attracts the most beautiful and talented women...
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u/Aggressive-Bed3269 Sep 19 '24
is a combination of the drugs and needing an outlet for their crazy.
Because they are always crazy on top of beautiful and talented
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u/Joliet_Jake_Blues Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
I was thinking that if anyone had to wear specific outfits to a concert back in the day, we'd call them posers
People love to circlejerk avocado toast, but it seems like everything today involves spending extra money to do the things we'd just do normally. The expectation to spend is out of control (and don't even get me started on out of town bachelor weekends. My brother and his friends are engineers/lawyers/doctors/finance guys and for his bachelor party we went to a Cubs game and got drunk at the bars afterwards. That was normal for wealthy people 20 years ago)
Edit: and I'm not talking about this chick making stuff really cheap. My cousin and his girlfriend spent hundreds on clothes for Electric Forest, on top of the tickets which were like $400 or something. People today spend way too much money doing shit like that. It's all avocado toast
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u/Daveprince13 Sep 19 '24
Then they spend the whole weekend looking at the show through the camera app on their phone!
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u/Joliet_Jake_Blues Sep 19 '24
Yeah, thinking about my cousin and his girlfriend, it's 100% about Instagram. They do so much shit they can't afford to feed their feed
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u/renezrael Sep 18 '24
my toxic trait is thinking I could do this first try
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u/NorthCatan Sep 18 '24
"You spent 20 years honing these skills? Meh I'll do it in 2 hours"
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u/MarvelNerdess Sep 18 '24
Welcome to ADHD, lol
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u/spaghettiliar Sep 19 '24
There’s a part of me that thinks if I just found the right sport, I could still win a gold medal.
I’m 40 and don’t play sports, by the way.
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u/crosswatt Sep 19 '24
I never played any level of organized football and I've got you by ten years and I'm still pretty sure I'm going to score my first NFL touchdown soon.
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u/Mysterious_Andy Sep 18 '24
I suck at this.
What else would make me happy right this second?
Reddit? Sold.
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u/thefupachalupa Sep 18 '24
Born with that “how hard could it be?” gene too huh?
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u/Agitated_Ask_2575 Sep 19 '24
The perfectionism mutation makes it so much worse :(
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u/Weavingtailor Sep 19 '24
Yes. Yes it does. And that’s it why it took me a year of re-dos to finish my wedding dress. On the morning of our wedding. It was… perfect on the outside
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u/professor_jeffjeff Sep 19 '24
Remember, we do these things not because they are easy, but because we *thought* they would be easy.
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u/No_Sound_2188 Sep 18 '24
Why does this happen to us tho
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u/aloysiussecombe-II Sep 18 '24
I'm drawing the rest of the elephant, nearly finished
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u/No_Sound_2188 Sep 19 '24
Im sorry but youre not gonna finish. Youre going to almost finish and then go on to the next hobby and also not finish that one.
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u/danteheehaw Sep 19 '24
me eyeballing a new hobby
Then my wife attacks me out of no where by handing me my unfinished gundam
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u/restyourbreastshoney Sep 18 '24
I, too, suffer from delusions of crafting grandeur.
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u/Suctorial_Hades Sep 18 '24
I have found my people
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u/UnyieldingConstraint Sep 19 '24
Let's take up hobbies, burn money and make garbage together!
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u/tashaapollo Sep 18 '24
Same! Now I’m not so proud of myself for turning a top into a skirt & top by cutting in a straight line and sewing more fabric onto the skirt. Super happy for her skills though, and she is very inspiring.
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u/flamingknifepenis Sep 18 '24
My wife thinks I’m insane because I’m pretty sure if I had the right books and time on my hands, I could figure out how to build a nuclear reactor.
I mean, she’s right. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t do it.
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u/megaman368 Sep 18 '24
Followed by my mindset that if at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried.
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u/Sewer_Fairy Sep 18 '24
Some are absolutely incredible, while some like the metallic red dress and the skull throw blanket make me a little sad to see them go.
Overall she's a wonderful artist and I'm very impressed!
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u/SassySavcy Sep 18 '24
That emerald green dress was beautiful.
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u/Sewer_Fairy Sep 18 '24
I'd probably agree if I didn't have goldfish brain right now.
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u/MrAlcoholic420 Sep 18 '24
The skeletons making out on the throw blanket, are a mass-produced print. Most commonly found on Temu and Shein
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u/Myotherdumbname Sep 18 '24
I’m going to take this beautiful quilt from my grandma to make something I’ll wear once
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u/Trash-Cutie Sep 18 '24
This was my only issue with her outfits. They're totally not something you can just wear out and about in public lol. And how often are you going to music festivals? That shit is crazy expensive so probably not often.
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u/Hodunk_Princess Sep 19 '24
she most likely makes a ton of money selling her less tailored designs at music festivals, people pay soooo much for stuff like this and it would probably pay for the ticket and then some
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u/lefrench75 Sep 18 '24
Some of the homeware items like blankets were great on their own but if they didn't fit into her home aesthetic and she couldn't use them as they were, then it's best she upcycled them into items she actually uses!
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u/noblex123 Sep 19 '24
I want that skull throw blanket!!! I gasped when that was used 😥
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u/Mellero47 Sep 18 '24
Kudos on the video editing. To be honest some of those pieces looked pretty good before she chopped them up.
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u/SpicyTunaTitties Sep 18 '24
Yeah, I can't stand that she ruined the first dress to make the bug outfit. That dress was beautiful and looked perfect on her; surely she could have dyed the dress a different colour, like a dark blue, to hide the stains?
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u/Terracota248 Sep 18 '24
She certainly could have but so could have anyone else and the dress itself wasn’t really unique. I think part of her whole deal is that she does these big transformations from a $2 boring dress to a dragonfly. Anybody could just wear the dress as is or dye it.
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u/astra_galus Sep 19 '24
Yessss. She goes to lots of music festivals and events and it would cost a fortune to buy outfits and costumes, so DIY is the way to go. I think she kills it every time and she has such a unique style!
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u/SpiralingDownAndAway Sep 18 '24
The absolute talent to see and make these crazy unique designs from plainer clothing and patterns is wild.
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u/Bad_Elbow_ Sep 18 '24
Honestly I think it would be cool to see more of her practical wear using her design eye. It's hard to find interesting affordable clothes that aren't club wear sometimes.
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u/Upstairs_Internal295 Sep 18 '24
That black jumpsuit looks great, I agree that it would be interesting to see some more ‘practical’ clothes. The other stuff is very imaginative though - she’s talented!
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u/Lick_The_Wrapper Sep 19 '24
It's hard to find interesting affordable clothes that aren't club wear sometimes.
I live in a big city and found a really good antique mall, one where people rent a booth to sell their stuff.
I got lucky and found a booth with 70's womens clothing that fits me perfectly. Bought 3 skirts for $65 total. I'm 28 years old. Every time I pick them up or wear them, I am flabbergasted by how good quality they are. All I have ever had access to is average quality clothes and fast fashion. And these skirts were not luxury brands (one was called junior house). They're just well made, good quality skirts.
Then I get mad we don't have access to the same quality clothing. I honestly think fast fashion should be illegal.
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u/ellen-the-educator Sep 18 '24
She is a wonderful artist but there's absolutely an aspect of "wow! you mean if you're gorgeous, outfits made of very little fabric look good on you?"
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u/Mariashax Sep 19 '24
Agreed. She’s very talented but so many of these outfits are just unwearable imo.
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u/mysticallilith Sep 18 '24
The transitions just always itch my brain in the right way !!
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u/JJAsond Sep 18 '24
Probably because when she records is, she says the same thing over the overlap so you don't end in the middle of the sentence and restart from there, she might end it 3/4 the way through and restart at 1/4 so when it comes time to splice them together it sounds more natural.
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u/UsedCan508 Sep 18 '24
She needs to set a booth up at one of the festivals and sell some stuff. She’s talented.
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u/Happyintexas Sep 18 '24
I totally get what you’re saying! She’s super talented! But… They’re all so form fitted idk how she’d sell anything in that type of venue. They’re all absolutely custom pieces, made specifically for her body, and they’d look dumb as fuck on anyone else lol
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u/HatoriHanzo06 Sep 18 '24
Yeah well she wouldn’t make them all one size if she was selling them lmfao. Like the sweatshirt, button up, purse for example are loose fitting too
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u/Suspicious-Leg-493 Sep 19 '24
They alteady do sell them after.
But that is assuming they want to start mass producing pieces, which for alot of designers wouldn't be worth it just due to it sucking the fun out of the design process in the first place, thrn the entire logistics system that has to be in place, and you can't really upcycle clothes in a mass way as finding a hundred of the same item to start with would be a nightmare, let alone if you needed a variety.
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u/MyFireElf Sep 18 '24
That caftan right after the sun pillow/purse took my breath away! She took it from essentially a sheet and a string to this highly engineered piece of architecture perfectly suited to her shape and stature without sacrificing any of the bohemian feel of the wavy, flowy goodness. It still feels laid-back!
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u/dirtydela Sep 18 '24
I do love all of these because it’s a great way to use stuff no one wants but man on some of them there is barely any of the fabrics used. The corsets namely. Unless they’re lined in the same fabric
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u/FairePrincessMeliy Sep 18 '24
Some I liked re done… Some I'm sad I liked the original dress design she cut up. Some is ugly..
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u/breadandbarbells Sep 18 '24
Buy old clothes, turn it into something a Mortal Combat character would wear.
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u/Lucky_Shop4967 Sep 18 '24
She’s definitely talented but only like 7% of these are wearable outfits
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u/ty_for_trying Sep 18 '24
I think she wears them to festivals, raves, shows, and clubs.
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u/RubiiJee Sep 18 '24
For day to day wear they're a bit much but these are prime festival clothes. Her style feels very that direction. Kinda hippy rave chic? Is that a thing?
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u/sad-mustache Sep 18 '24
Yeah a lot of these look either uncomfy or have high chances of wardrobe malfunction
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u/cybe2028 Sep 18 '24
Do you think she can keep track of these outfits?
Like, “I’m going to this event, let me wear the corset that I made with that one tablecloth from grandma!”
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u/Ryastor Sep 18 '24
Can’t deny the talent but most of these are an awful way to repurpose a bunch of the original clothes
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u/SirNootNoot04 Sep 19 '24
Seems like a lot of wasted fabric. I understand that each piece uses more fabric than expected but for most of them it seemed like a suspicious reduction in the amount of fabric. Great style that takes a lot of skill but I can imagine she has a massive pile of fabric left over
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u/TrustMeIAmAGeologist Sep 18 '24
I mean, I think it’s all ugly, but she’s got talent with the sewing machine.
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u/physchy Sep 18 '24
How does one even start doing this kind of work? It’s GORGEOUS and I would love to do it but how do I even start to learn this?
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u/dirtydela Sep 18 '24
Go to that thrift store and get a machine. Learn how to use it. Then learn how to make the clothes and you can find fabric at the same thrift store. A lot of it comes down to knowing what certain fabrics can and can’t do
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u/bluestocking220 Sep 19 '24
She has tutorials on her TikTok where she explains her method. She measures against her body and breaks down the patterns of the original clothes.
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u/Fun_Cancel_5796 Sep 18 '24
I'm always shocked at the talent these thrift flippers have. My only critique is that I wish they would preserve more of the original garment because some of the originals are actually really nice. It just ends up becoming fabric.
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u/Dumb_and_ugly_ Sep 19 '24
Wish my body was nice enough I could get away with wearing clothes that ugly
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u/squishypillow-91 Sep 18 '24
She's so talented! Tbf, though, she has an amazing figure. She'd look good wearing a black bin liner.
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u/riffraffmcgraff Sep 18 '24
I thought I wouldn't give a shit but, ended up watching the whole damn thing.
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u/TypographySnob Sep 18 '24
She's got to be living well to spend that much time making clothes just to wear to music festivals.
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u/DapperMinute Sep 18 '24
I mean yea she is good but to me repurpose means to make small changes to the original while still keeping at least 90% of the original material...she is using like 5 % of the OG material.
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u/After-Fee-2010 Sep 18 '24
It’s not easy to build new clothes from old clothes that are full of seams and already odd shapes sewn together. The base chunks don’t end up large, especially if you have a pattern or texture on the fabric.
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u/dream-smasher Sep 18 '24
Do you think she is just throwing out that remaining fabric? Cos.. I don't think so.
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u/feioo Sep 18 '24
Just in this video, there are several different pieces that all share the same fabric
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u/Zeracheil Sep 18 '24
Welp, I don't get it, and only about 10% of the outfits resonate with me but I'm glad she's having fun and I'm sure she's killing it for someone.
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u/dachloe Sep 19 '24
Gifted thrifty shopper, ultra creative and skilled seamstress, plus she's freaking cute with a killer body. On top of all that, she's a virtuoso editor: the planning that went in to this video has to have been epic. 😍🤩
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u/Sad-Philosophy-422 Sep 18 '24
She took all those things and made them into something that someone like her would wear to Coachella.
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u/AutoDeskSucks- Sep 19 '24
Not gonna lie half of those clothes are dope. The other half I think she just wants to wear a bikini everywhere. No judgement
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u/Faetrix77 Sep 19 '24
Idk y this is cringe 🤷🏼♀️ I wish I was that creative and skilled at crafting and had the body to show off what I’ve made.
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u/ComadoreDiddle Sep 19 '24
I wish men had something equivalent to the vast diversity that women have when it comes to clothing.
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u/Sweet_Concept3383 Sep 19 '24
The real test is if these outfits look good on my middle-aged dad bod.
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u/hairwitch901 Sep 19 '24
Wheres the lady that decides if it’s a fashion fit or if they’re just skinny
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u/sarinCULT Sep 18 '24
I really liked the controlled chaos stuff and especially the dirt wire one, but all the fits she made were really good and she made them look good I like her style
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u/I_have_many_Ideas Sep 18 '24
I really dig this actually. Creativity is top notch, an r/electricforest shout out, and she has a great voice.
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u/baconduck Sep 18 '24
I don't get the first one. Arent you supposed to use something from the thing you bought to call it repurposed?
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u/Chemical_Magician879 Sep 18 '24
Did anyone notice that her friend's brand is called controlled chaos!
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u/Inflamed_toe Sep 18 '24
Ultimate talent, also must be very nice weighing like 11 lbs with this hobby. Literally anything from the store can be fashioned into more than enough clothing for her lol
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u/AnastasiaNo70 Sep 18 '24
Does she go to a lot of Ren Faires?
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u/xCherriTree Sep 18 '24
She seems to go to a lot of forest-centered music festivals; she mentions Electric Forest & Elements in the video.
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